Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-03
GIRLS WE HAVE ALL NET.
The Pretty Girl, the Gushing Girl and the
Girls We Really Love, or at Least Say We
Catherine Cole in Nep Orleans Picayme.

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Catherine Cole in NeD OreaHs Pcdyune.
know the girl who is simply pretty.
Well, and is not that enough? Once upon
a time a distinguished New Orleans beau
was besieged by a fair maid and a homely
maid, who pressed the claims of intellect
versus beauty. The homely girl ex-
claimed: "Oh, you will surely give
your vote, Mr.. D: in favor
of intellect; beauty is only skin
deep, you know" Deep enoug h for me,
my dear, deep enough for me-" answered
the irrepressible gallant. And 80 it is for
most of US. A pretty girl may drop her
final g's, not W an r in all her vOcabu-
larry, be rs vapid as a shallow little stream
purling down the hillside, with an eternal
smile on her red lips, a CLINT of laughter
in her young eye. She il pretty,
and she knows it, and that is almost
enough. But after a time there will come
a day when the girl who was only pretty
will stand by and look on at the triumpbs
of the girl who was wise as well ~ pretty;
who fitted her mind to accord with the
graces Of its beautiful casket.
Her few friends may be faithful u her.
Her n true lover may still be fond Of
her, for il is not easy TO uproot love, but
their fondness is tempered with regret and
disappointment, and when the soft eyes
dim and the round arms shrivel, and the
satin cheek is IN etched picture Of life's
vanity and times failure, the girl who was
only pretty turns her poor SCARED face TO
the wall; there is no welcome lamp Of in
telligence lighted in the blue windows Of
her soul-dull, inert, unCultivated. Skin
deep beauty was not deep enough after all.
The gushing girl is a nineteenth century
production. She giggles from the time she
opens her eyes in the morning until she
says amen to the Lord at night and puts
her fluffy little head on the pillow. She
says thanks awfully" for 81 thank VOC"
She thinks the grand, lugubrious music of
the ''Stabat Mater ito sweet Tor any
thing" A kitten with its eyes as yet IN
opened, the Niagara Falls and Mr.. Glad
stone all are lust too utterly charming
and lovely for any earthly use" Her
adjectfves are all in the superlatiye. She
will gush over a pumpkin, over
her sisters new baby, over a dog
erel rhyme, over everything she sees,
everything she hears, over everybody she
knows. II she is here tonight she will say
to me as she does of the she did
Of her new bonnet-that I'm either sim
ply grand" or simply horrid." But then
she Is young-she is impressionab!e. She
is full Of something which she thinks is
sentiment. Let her hug her neighbours
babies and her brothers kittens, and kiss
the collie puppy and adore the new minis
ter. it is all gush. 1t is the innocent,
light-hearted gush Of 4 girl. Let her
frolicsome youth have its fling. In a little
whites she, too, will join the ranks Of the
lookers-on, and will have her fling az that
silly, Cycling gusher, to whoa everything
is sweet" OF cute or cunning" or
lust too awfully lovely"
There is a girl, and / love to think Of
her, and talk of her, who comes in late
when there Is company, who wears q pref
ty little air Of mingled responsibility and
anxiety with her youth, whom the owners
seem to depend On and look to Tor many
comforts. She is the girl who helps
mother. In her own home she is a blessed
little saint and comforter. She takes un-
finished tasks from the tired stiff fingers
hat falter at their work; her strong young
figure is a staff upon which the gray
haired, white-faced mother leans and
is rested. She helps mother with
her spring sewing, with the weeks mend
ing, with a cheerful conversation and COZ
genial companionship that some girls do
not think worth while wasting On only
mother. And when there comes a day
that she must bend, as girls must often
bend, over the old WORKOUT body Of
mother, lying UNDECIDED in her coffin.
rough bands folded, her long disquiet
merged in rest, something very sweet will
be mingled with her loss, and the girl who
helped mother will find a telediction Of
peace upon her head Gud in her heart.
The girl VINO works-God bless hers
another girl whom | know. She is brave
and active. She is not to proud to earn
her own living, MOI ashamed to 10 sangh.
at her daily task. She is studious and
painstaking, and patient. She smiles at
You irom behind counter or desk. THERE'S
a memory Of her sown into each silken
gown. She is like q beautiful young